11 May 2016

Roxy Music "The Atlantic Years 1973 - 1980" (1983)

The Atlantic Years 1973 - 1980 (compilation)
release date: Nov. 1983
format: vinyl (815 849-1) / cd
[album rate: 4 / 5]
producer: various
label: EG / Polydor - nationality:

Compilation album by Roxy Music released after Bryan Ferry had dissolved the band earlier that year. The album contains ten tracks with a total running time of 41 minutes. The selected tracks may intend to reflect the entire history of the band, but it's quite obviously made with an attempt to showcase Roxy Music in the light of its most recent albums, thus putting emphasis on the sophisti-pop branch of the band's later stylistic sound. Four tracks (#1, #2, "6, #9) are from Manifesto (1979), four (#3, #5, #7, #8) from Flesh + Blood (1980), and one track (tracks #4 and #10) is originally found on Siren (1975) and For Your Pleasure (1973) respectively.